I collect temp data from various rooms in the house in order to adjust the AC infinity fans. To make this more accurate that the Venstar units, I am using Raspberry PI Picos as simple web servers I can poll. main.py for the RPiP web server:

We recently switched to geothermal for our heating/cooling which look like it’s lowering our bill by around 40%. We had two systems before feeding the house and there was a huge variability in heating and cooling, especially in our upstairs bedrooms, which have vaulted ceilings. I was using AC infinity register fans to try boost … More Raspberry Pi controlling AC Infinity Booster Fans (UIS)

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A 2019 Mac Pro can be particularly troublesome office-mate in the summer. At full throttle the thing can put out 3076 BTU/h of heat – though mine does a lot less. Which may make the space a little warm a sauna. Last year I added vent boosters to the AC vents and returns in the … More Sharing an Space with a sweaty Mac Pro

On February 8th 2021, Microsoft will enable Guest Access for Microsoft Teams by default for all customers unless they have explicitly turned it off. What this means is that post February 8th your users may be able to invite others to your Microsoft Teams instance, or be invited to other organizations’ Teams instance as a … More Beware: Microsoft Teams Guest Access on by default February 8th

If you want to use a Webex Board as a TV, connected to your AppleTV there are two problems…. HDCP and no Volume control of the Webex Board from your AppleTV remote. I am not going to talk about HDCP. 🙂 For the volume control I hacked up a solution: A raspberry pi with an … More Volume control for your Webex Board with AppleTV

My 8 year old has chosen to “learn how a computer works” as his project for school. Step 1: An overview from Bill Gates and others. We started our journey by having him watch a series of short videos on Khan Academy that set the basic groundwork and also introduce a few things we were … More Teaching my 8 year old “how a computer works” with ICs, breadboards and more

In the first installment of this blog I covered how to upgrade the headphones/earphones you are listening to. This by far gives you the biggest bang for your buck in terms of improving your experience. Next, lets look at what can power those new device if you now have an itch… or youd like to … More Listen like a Rock Star: Upgrade your mobile music experience (2/2)

MQA MQA is a set of processes, encoding technologies and other technologies to make the music you listen to (streaming, in a file, or from CD) sound better – potentially much better. Its backward compatible with things like CDs so in the future a CD that plays on your regular player will “play even better” … More What is MQA, in short?